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Australia at War 1914-1918

This detailed account of the Òwar to end all warsÓ is made up of actual footage shot on the battlefields of Europe at the time.
Year : 1967 | Total Duration : 63 Minutes | Producer : Frank Bagnall
Director : Barrie Pattison |
Opening titles. Using footage shot by Hubert Wilkins and Frank Hurley from the Australian War Memorial. WWI
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Access No. 40372 | 22 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian troops boarding on ships including horses being loaded. HMAS Sydney, Star of Victoria, tickertape streamers as ship leaves, out to sea. Men resting and training on deck, horses exercised. WWI
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Access No. 123895 | 1 min 6 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian troops in front of Sphinx and Pyramids at Giza. Men on camels. Egyptians grinding corn. Australian troops on guard. Camps outside Cairo, Australian and British troops. Horse drawn artillery in desert, Suez campaign (1915) WWI
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Access No. 123896 | 1 min 15 secs | 1910s | Egypt, Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
GV Constantinople (now Istanbul). British /French ships at sea. Convoy of ships towards camera. Guns from ship firing. Explosions in Turkish coast. German battleships by coast. Inside French ? ship, guns being loaded and fired. (1915) WWI
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Access No. 123897 | 1 min 11 secs | 1910s | Turkey | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Turkish troops, CU Mustafa Kemal, later Attaturk, leader of the Turkish Nationalists. Ari Burnu coast. Attack by Turks on mules, Turks firing guns. Newspaper heading ÒDardanelles - Allies AttackÓ. Map showing landings at Cape Helles and Gabatepe. Poster for recruitment in Australia ÒBoys - Come Over Here, You're WantedÓ.(1915) WWI
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Access No. 123898 | 1 min 12 secs | 1910s | Ari Burnu, Cape Helles, Gabatepe, Turkey | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Various Australian enlistment posters. In France, Australian troops with horses in camp. French women working on the land. Maintaining weapons. Australian troops training with Lewis guns, smoke manoeuvres. Australian troops marching to camera. Observation balloons (dirigibles) being inflated. Balloon in air. Artillery firing, officer on field telephone. One balloon hit, parachute as man escapes, dirigible on fire, falling to ground. Parachutist on ground. (1916) WWI
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Access No. 123899 | 3 mins | 1910s | France, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Inside trenches, large guns firing. Barbed wire. Barrage of artillery. Sandbags. Somme 1916, Australian and Allied troops. Men loading bombs into guns. British troops at La Boiselle (phonetic) loading bayonets, trenches, attacking from top of trenches, explosions, moppers up, mud (1916). WWI
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Access No. 123900 | 1 min 55 secs | 1910s | Western Front, France, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Ruins of Compt en Maison (phonetic) and chalk pits behind Pozieres.German and Allied guns and artillery firing. Australian troops in and out over trenches. Vickers gun,German troops fleeing, some German POW's used to carry wounded. POW's being searched. CU's German soldiers. Allied troops resting. (1916) WWI
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Access No. 123901 | 1 min 32 secs | 1910s | Pozieres, Western Front, France, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Working parties cleaning up after attack. Roll call in Headencourt Wood (phonetic). Ruins of Ypres, some men on leave. Soldiers waving at camera. Men shaving and washing in trenches. Canals, railways, roads, horses pulling artillery, some stuck. Soldiers carrying spades and supplies to Front, wounded and captured POW's back from the Front. Allied officers taking notes from wounded. Casualties onto ship back to Britain. (1915) WWI
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Access No. 123902 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1910s | France, Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Somme. Soldiers wearing kilts. Receiving mail. Letter from Prime Minister William Morris (Billy) Hughes. Australian referendum / conscription reports in newspapers, posters for recruitment, home scenes. Somme - wreckage, muddy roads, lines of troops moving, one man stuck in mud, artillery bogged. Horses being fed. Roads repaired. Duck boards used in mud. Explosions, guns fired, snow , line of troops on horizon,(1916-1917). WWI
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Access No. 123903 | 3 mins 48 secs | 1910s | Somme, France, Western Front | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Egyptian campaign - ANZAC troops into Sinai Desert, many on horseback. August 1916 battle of Romani, El Arish (phonetic). Egyptian and Indian labourers carrying loads. Construction of military railway across Suez to Palestine and pipeline for water supply. Dust in desert as guns fired. Troops in pith helmets. ÒPlum PuddingÓ trench mortars. Explosion. Magazine of bullets fed into Vickers machine gun. WWI
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Access No. 123904 | 2 mins 6 secs | 1910s | Egypt, Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Fall of Gaza October 1917. Lighthorsemen to Beersheba. Caterpillar tractors, camels, horses through desert. 4th/12th Regiment charge Turkish lines. Infantry attack Beersheeba Road to Daheb el Sultani (phonetic). Explosions. Guns. Camels. Australian Light Horse. CU Sir Harry Chauvel. Camel corps. Red Cross wagons and workers. Turkish POW's. Australian troops making camp. City of Jaffa, boats on Mediterranean. WWI
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Access No. 123905 | 2 mins 9 secs | 1910s | Gaza, Beersheeba, Jaffa, Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aerial Jerusalem. 11 December 1917 General Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot with other Allied officers and troops including Australians. Military rule declared. Australian troops on leave. J. Australian Lighthorse brigade towards Jericho. WWI
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Access No. 123906 | 1 min 48 secs | 1910s | Gaza, Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Winter 1917/1918. Railway laid at Hindenberg line. Bapume village in ruins. March 1917 ruins and devastation. Explosions. Rescue attempts. Open country around Hindenberg, explosions. WWI
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Access No. 123907 | 1 min 59 secs | 1910s | Hindenberg Line, Baupaune, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Cambrat 1917. Advance of Allied tanks, troops follow. Through barbed wire. Advancing with cavalry. Troops in trenches, going over the top. Explosions, bayonets, tanks. Bombing from overhead. Aerial explosion. Artillery firing at aircraft. CU Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen), into plane, German aircraft take off. Allied soldiers looking through binoculars. Air to land, bomb dropping. Australian Sopwith, Air to air shots including plane hit and falling to ground. Dead bodies. WWI
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Access No. 123908 | 3 mins 27 secs | 1910s | Western Front. Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Bridges reconstructed in Europe by Allied troops. Horses pulling case irons. Explosions. Troops out of raid shelter and fire from guns, Line of guns firing. VS Troops attacking including on horizon. Prisoners brought back from Front into trenches. German officers look to camera. POW's carry stretchers of wounded. POW camp, food served, medical examination. men sleeping. (1917) WWI
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Access No. 123909 | 3 mins | 1910s | Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Messines area, Allied soldiers studying maps of area. Infantry matching. Horses pull artillery. Cavalry. Large 12 inch naval gun used, loaded and fired. Underground mines at Messines and Hill 60. Explosives taken below. 7 June 1917 attack. Officer in trench looks at watch. Explosions, trenches, troops attack. Magazine fed into machine gun. Artillery firing. Wounded walk along rough road. WWI
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Access No. 123910 | 3 mins 19 secs | 1910s | Messines, Western Front, Europe, | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Wounded soldiers in hospital. Naval action in North Sea. Observation planes, aerial naval ships. Dirigible (observation balloon). Destroyers. Many troops on ship. Torpedo tubes. Submarine. Depth charges set off. Sea plane. Australian troops on leave in London. Ypres - mules in mud. 8 inch Howitzer guns firing. Casualties carried. Troops walking back form Front. German POW's. Red Cross workers carrying bags. Troops in trench. WWI
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Access No. 123911 | 3 mins 26 secs | 1910s | North Sea, Western Front, Ypres | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Battle of Menin Road September 20 1917 also Polygon Wood Sept 26 and Broodsiende, Oct 4. Soldiers firing artillery. VS Casualties. Infantry marching in mud. Ruined guns by side of road. Desperate scenes. WWI
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Access No. 123912 | 1 min 25 secs | 1910s | Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodsiende, Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Persian Front. Armenian refugees. Assyrian Armenian Regular Brigade join selected allies of Dunstar Force . Physical inspection. Barku Oil fields of Russia. British troops from 39th Brigade. Refugees and starvation. British and Russian artillery, Rolls Royce armoured cars in desert. Russian soldiers. Wounded on stretchers. WWI
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Access No. 123913 | 1 min 53 secs | 1910s | Armenia, Russia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
ANZAC camps in Turkey, trenches, looking over rim. Hillside of Turkish troops. Gallipoli - hillside and piers into sea. Suvla Bay - troops landing. Periscope rifle in trenches. Allied troops firing over rim. Stretchers carried with casualties. Hospital ship. WWI
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Access No. 123914 | 2 mins 27 secs | 1910s | Gallipoli, Suvla Bay,Turkey | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Troops on horses being fired at, Hindenberg Line, Somme. Battlefield at Mont St Quentin (March 1918). Australian troops arriving on train to assist British at Amiens. VS action, artillery, explosions at Villers-Bretteneux , Hebuterne and Dernacourt. Refugees down road with hand cart. Ruins of Villers-Bretteneux, Australian, French, Moroccan troops in streets and at rest in countryside (April 1918) WWI.
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Access No. 123915 | 1 min 59 secs | 1910s | Mont St Quentin, Hindenberg, Somme, Amiens, Villers-Bretteneux, Hebuterne, Dernacourt, Flanders, Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Line of Australian Light horsemen winding along, some Red Cross wagons towards Jericho. Crossing River Jordan including camels. Street scenes in Palestine showing Australian troops and local Arab people. Turkish POW's marched along. Abandoned enemy guns on side of road. White flag surrender in village. Light Horsemen and British enter Damascus (1 Oct 1918) WWI
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Access No. 123916 | 2 mins 6 secs | 1910s | Palestine, Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian Light Horsemen along ? Setall ? Strait along Barada River. Infantry marching in kilts. TE Lawrence's Arab troops on camels. Em el Faisel (phonetic) arrives on horseback & enters Victoria to Hotel to talk with General Allenby (not seen). VS streets, Arab troops, Bengal Lancers (Indian soldiers), Turkish ox carts, casualties on road (1918). WWI
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Access No. 123917 | 1 min 36 secs | 1910s | Middle East | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Infantry raid enemy line, men run along horizon, explosions.(1918) Vegetables loaded onto truck. Horses and men wash in river. Chinese labour corps in France with Australians. Australians with American troops. British troops marching. Whippet tanks (July/August 1918). Allied troops in surrendered cities. Soldiers on damaged bridge. WWI
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Access No. 123918 | 3 mins 24 secs | 1910s | Flanders, Belgium, France, Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian prime minister William Morris Hughes in Peron (Western Front) with Lt General Sir John Monash. Inspecting German gun, Australian troops fooling around with it. Australian troops departing on train. Late 1918, guns fired, horses gallop with artillery. Burning wreckage WWI
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Access No. 123919 | 1 min 25 secs | 1910s | Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Norman Lindsay painting of men marching. VS Australian men in civilian clothing and uniform marching to enlist for war. Some on horseback WWI
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Access No. 123920 | 55 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Peace celebrations in Europe. Soldiers on bicycles, civilians waving, soldiers looking relaxed, arms around each other. Australian airmen at German airfield. Australian soldiers with Belgian civilians including woman milking sheep. Playing two-up. Children given Christmas gifts. Australian troops lined up. WWI
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Access No. 123922 | 1 min 36 secs | 1910s | Western Front, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Trucks carrying troops to train, happy Australian faces at railway stations, guns stacked. AIF Military Scheme and Non - Military Employment - soldiers given agricultural demonstrations. General Hague and Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) watch parade in London including Australian, American, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Rumanian soldiers. Lloyd George and Royal Family watch. WWI
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Access No. 123923 | 2 mins 22 secs | 1910s | London, England, UK, Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Opening titles. Using footage shot by Hubert Wilkins and Frank Hurley from the Australian War Memorial. WWI
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Access No. 150247 | 22 secs | 1910s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
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